<p>To those who have taken the class as a FYS, how was the class, workload, teacher (Paul Willard) etc.</p>
<p>Williard is a solid professor, and I would have loved to have taken that particular FYS because the topic is cool. I would expect the material to be challenging but interesting and the assessment to be easier than you’d expect. Williard has a tendency to trust that if you’re in class and mildly engaged you’re going to learn the material so he often uses exams to teach students. What I mean by that is that I found his exams often took ideas and principals we learned in class and had us use them in a totally different way that he didn’t have time to go over in class but wanted to make sure we knew before we finished the course.</p>
<p>That was the case for his upper level courses, in my experience.</p>